Here is some of my original Christian poetry. I hope you enjoy!
- Of Worth and Esteem
- Love Looks like Something
- Let God Arise
- Hold Onto your Joy
- God of All Comfort
- Jenny
- How Far are You Willing to Go?
- A Sower Went Out to Sow
- The Mystery of the Cross
- Stand in the Ways and See
- What’s it all About?
June 5, 2015 at 3:28 pm
Here is a poem that I wrote years ago that I thought you would like to read:
Shiloh
By Tim Shey
Brutal deathdance;
My eyes weep blood.
Pharisees smile like vipers,
They laugh and mock their venom:
Blind snakes leading
The deaf and dumb multitude.
Where are my friends?
The landscape is dry and desolate.
They have stretched my shredded body
On this humiliating tree.
The hands that healed
And the feet that brought good news
They have pierced
With their fierce hatred.
The man-made whip
That opened up my back
Preaches from a proper pulpit.
They sit in comfort:
That vacant-eyed congregation.
The respected, demon-possessed reverend
Forks his tongue
Scratching itchy ears
While Cain bludgeons
Abel into silence.
My flesh in tattered pieces
Clots red and cold and sticks
To the rough-hewn timber
That props up my limp, vertical carcase
Between heaven and earth.
My life drips and puddles
Below my feet,
As I gaze down dizzily
On merciless eyes and dagger teeth.
The chapter-and-versed wolves
Jeer and taunt me.
Their sheepwool clothing
Is stained black with the furious violence
Of their heart of stone.
They worship me in lip service,
But I confess,
I never knew them
(Though they are my creation).
My tongue tastes like ashes:
It sticks to the roof of my mouth.
I am so thirsty.
This famine is too much for me.
The bulls of Bashan have bled me white.
Papa, into your hands
I commend my Spirit.
Ethos
February/March 1997
Iowa State University
Genesis 49: 10: “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.”
https://hitchhikeamerica.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/shiloh/
June 7, 2015 at 1:42 am
Wow. Nothing luke-warm or light-hearted about that – that’s the gospel of our Lord. “Where are my friends?” that line has really spoken to me. He was rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and if we have His Spirit we will be too. Thank you for sharing this and God bless you in your ministry.